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May Wetherby Jones Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k23 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. John Center Inc | $20,000 |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens, Inc. | $10,000 |
| The Filson Historical Society | $10,000 |
| Louisville Olmstead Parks Conservancy, Inc. | $10,000 |
| St. Luke's Episcopal Church | $8,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Louisville | $7,000 |
| The Morton Center | $7,000 |
| 21st Century Parks, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Society of St. Vincent dePaul Council of Louisville | $5,000 |
| Summit Academy of Greater Louisville, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Kentucky Humane Society | $5,000 |
| Harbor House of Louisville | $5,000 |
| Maryhurst, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Hildegard House | $5,000 |
| Historic Locust Grove, Inc. | $5,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LOLouisville Olmstead Parks Conservancy Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
- SLSt. Luke's Episcopal Church2× · 2022–2023 · $16k
- BGBoys & Girls Club, Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
Funded once
- DTDARE TO CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
- THTHE HEALING PLACE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
- TFTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To restore, maintain, and imprive health of the people in the communities we serve.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whittier Home Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Whittier Home Association ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds SMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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